AWS Observability

AWS Observability

Key Capabilities

• CloudWatch Logs Insights queries across up to 50 log groups
• Metrics & Alarms with recommended configurations
• Application Signals APM with distributed tracing and SLOs
• CloudTrail security auditing (Lake, CloudWatch Logs, Lookup Events)
• Codebase observability gap analysis (Python, Java, JS/TS, Go, Ruby, C#)

MCP Servers

• awslabs.cloudwatch-mcp-server — Logs, Metrics, Alarms
• awslabs.cloudwatch-applicationsignals-mcp-server — APM, SLOs, tracing
• awslabs.cloudtrail-mcp-server — Security auditing
• awslabs.aws-documentation-mcp-server — AWS docs

Scenario Routing

• Incident response / troubleshooting → incident-response workflow
• Log analysis → log-analysis workflow
• Alerting setup → alerting-setup workflow
• Performance monitoring → performance-monitoring workflow
• Security auditing → security-auditing workflow
• Observability gaps → observability-gap-analysis workflow

MCP Server Config

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cloudwatch": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["awslabs.cloudwatch-mcp-server@latest"],
      "env": {
        "AWS_PROFILE": "default",
        "AWS_REGION": "us-east-1",
        "FASTMCP_LOG_LEVEL": "ERROR"
      }
    }
  }
}